Use of bowel segments for bladder augmentation has recognized long-term complications—perforation, stone formation, electrolyte disturbances and cancer—attributed to the presence of secretory ...

The need for bladder augmentation to obtain urinary continence also varies, with reports that somewhere between 10% and 90% of patients require an augmentation procedure to gain urinary continence.

Intestinal bladder augmentation is very successful in treatment of OAB symptoms; however, this is major surgery that involves the risk for significant morbidity. This surgery offers an ...